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Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
@benjamin-goldschmidt
Member since 2014
CURRENT MISSION Serenity ABOUT ME I'm so special, words can't express. PHILOSOPHY Poststructuralist wtf-ism
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Beer
Fluent in Czech
Learning Arabic (North Levantine)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Just beginning, but will do more. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Once, I went couchsurfing in Prague. I had a great dinner with my host. We discussed the topics of the day: the forthcoming impressionists' exhibition, the Bosnian question, the recent tragical end of Princess Sisi. We had finished a good bottle of Slivovitz, before we went to bed. I had a fevery night full with dreams and twisted phantasies. When I woke up in the morning, my arms and legs felt light and strangely fragile. I looked down on my body - I had become a fly!
Music, Movies, and Books
Klezmer, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Doors, Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, everything written by Saul Bellow, Egon Bondy. Currently reading: Richard Weiner, Sándor Márai
One Amazing Thing I've Done
assisted in a birth in a remote village in the Zarafshan mountains (Tajikistan); saved my Palestinian friend from drowning in the Euphrate; peed in between two railway carriages on the elektrichka from St.-Petersburg to Vyborg; more recently: running barefoot
Teach, Learn, Share
German, everything related to European history, politics, culture; loads of intercultural experience (West-Central-Eastern-Europe; Middle East).
What I Can Share With Hosts
Food, wine, beer, songs, good vibes
My Interests
theatre, Eastern European languages, yiddish, cycling, singing, contact impro, yoga, literature, history, politics
